Akira Emoto

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Known For

Acting

Born

1948-11-03

Place of Birth

Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
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Akira Emoto

Biography

Old good "Emo-chan" of modern Japanese cinema. Emo's father was a close friend of legendary episode player Taji Tonoyama in elementary school days. His mother's grandfather ran a shamisen store in Ginza, Tokyo. Both parents like movies and theaters. After graduating from Machinery Department of Tokyo Industrial High School, Emoto got a job at a trading company. However, he became an actor and became a student of the acting classes of the theater company "Marui", which is headed by Nobuo Kaneko, and met Yusaku Matsuda who was in the same class. In 1999, he won the Japanese Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in Dr. Akagi. He also won the award for best supporting actor at the 7th Hochi Film Award for Dotonbori River and Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san.

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Acting History

2026
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2025
One Last Throw
2025
Rental Family as Kikuo Hasegawa
2025
The Final Piece as Motoji Kanesaki
2025
Kyoto Hippocrates
2025
The Way of The Prison Guard
2025
The Boy and the Dog as Yaichi Katano
2025
Samurai Fury
2024
The God of Curling as Susumu Komiyama
2024
Maru as Teacher
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital as Keisuke Takamine
2024
JK to Roppozensho as 桜木倫太郎
2024
Don't Lose Your Head! as Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu
2023
The Innocent Game
2023
満天のゴール as トクじい
2023
September 1923 as Teiji Igusa
2023
Goal of the Sky
2023
Ripples as Taro Kadokura
2023
Hard Days as Yutaka Senba
2023
Touken Ranbu 2 as Fujiwara no Michinaga
2023
Do Unto Others as Shosaku Shiba
2023
Yudo: The Way of the Bath as regular customer
2023
Shylock's Children as Hajime Sawazaki
2023
Egoist as Yoshio Saito
2023
Umami as Salaryman
2023
Get Ready! as Hiroshi Bojo
2022
A Man as Norio Komiura
2022
The Setting Sun as Dr. Miyake
2022
Japanese Style as Hifuji Umekoshi
2022
No Place to Go as Bomber
2022
Goodbye My Dear as Hiroshi Yamawaki
2022
The New Chronicle of Lord Nobunaga: Classmates are Warriors as Yotaro Befunokami
2022
混声の森
2022
Lost Man Found as Himself
2022
Wandering as Agata
2022
Barber Shop with a View of the Sea as 老店主
2022
Teen Regime as Washida Tsuguaki
2022
Ten Count to the Future as Kenzo Ashiya
2022
Noise as Shoji
2021
Girls, Guns and Gangsters: Shinji Somai & Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
2021
Baragaki: Unbroken Samurai as Shop Owner
2021
Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses as Hadashi no Tyosuke(裸足のチョウスケ)
2021
祈り ―幻に長崎を想う刻―
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians as old man
2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians as Old Man
2021
空蝉の森 as Police Inspector kariya shinichi
2021
The End of the Tiny World as Kawabata
2021
Re: The End of the Tiny World - Half a Year Later as Kawabata
2021
てにあまる
2020
Underdog: Part Two as Sakuro
2020
Underdog: Part One as Sakuro
2020
Wonderful Paradise as Homeless
2020
Living in the Sky as Concierge Kondo
2020
Nosari: Impermanent Eternity
2020
I Never Shot Anyone as Takashi Renjo
2020
Stardust Over The Town as Kumabe Rokuzo
2019
Finding Light at the Darkness Festival
2019
The Promised Land as Goro Fujiki
2019
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
They Say Nothing Stays the Same as Toichi
2019
Banjo no Himawari
2019
It Feels So Good as Kenji's Father (voice)
2019
Iwane: Sword of Serenity as Urakusai
2019
Villain: Perpetrator Chase Investigation as 铃本茂树
2019
Godot of the Emotos
2019
In Hand
2019
Castle of Sand as Chiyokichi
2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home as (voice)
2018
Oz Land as Boss
2018
Good Doctor as Akira Shiga
2018
Recall as Seiji Nomura
2018
Shoplifters as Yoritsugu Kawado
2018
Color Me True as Tadashi Honda
2018
Evil and The Mask as Detective Aida
2018
Segodon as Ryu Samin
2017
Solitary Gourmet New Year's Eve Special ~Final Meal! Setouchi Business Trip~
2017
Home Sweet Tokyo as [Ramen Shop Owner]
2017
Mukoku as Seppo Mitsumura
2017
Neko Ninja as Kariyazaki
2017
Lu Over the Wall as Ashimoto's Grandfather (voice)
2017
The Dog Bridegroom as Kenkichi Okumura
2017
Frankenstein's Love as Tsurumaru
2017
Survival Family as Sasaki Shigeomi
2017
Random Lives as Hanamura
2017
A Life as Danjo Toranosuke
2017
Silver and Gold as Hitoshi Kuramae
2016
Shippu Rondo as Masaomi Togo
2016
Sniper as Tatsuyuki Miyata
2016
Black Widow Business as Jun Sakurada
2016
A Grain of Wheat as Honda
2016
Shin Godzilla as Ryuta Azuma : Chief Cabinet Secretary
2016
The Mohican Comes Home as Osamu Tamura
2016
Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit as Sfar
2016
Arashi no Namida
2016
Love That Makes You Cry as Masahiko Hayashida
2016
A Living Promise as Zenzo Takeda
2015
Journey to the Shore as Hoshitani
2015
The Big Bee as Murofushi
2015
The Pearls of the Stone Man as Kumaji Ueda
2015
Vampire in Love as Sojiro
2015
GARO -Gold Storm- Sho as Priest Soutatsu
2015
Living Rights
2015
Present for You
2015
新 法廷荒らし 猪狩文助〜終の棲家〜
2014
A House on a Hill as Yoshitarō Terashima
2014
0.5 mm as Takeshi Sasaki
2014
Cold as Jin Ichinose
2014
Time Trip App as Ryuzo Yanagita
2014
Oh! Father as Hayashi Tomita
2014
Wood Job! as Toshiro Yamane
2014
The Long Goodbye as Heizo Harada
2014
A Woman from Ashio
2014
A Woman from Ashio
2014
Sleeping Forest as Daisuke Ota
2013
Olympic Ransom
2013
Fly, Dakota, Fly!
2013
The Partner as Ōkuma Shigenobu
2013
Unforgiven as Kingo Baba
2013
Hanzawa Naoki as Keiji Minobe
2013
The War and a Woman as client of woman
2013
Kumokiri Nizaemon
2013
Yellow Elephant as Arechi
2013
Black Kite as Kaiun
2013
Banana, Gloves and Whale Shark as Lawyer
2012
Humanoid Monster, Bem as Kao no nai otoko
2012
One Day in January
2012
疑惑
2012
Platinum Town
2012
The Life of Budori Gusuko as Narrator / Dr. Kūbō (voice)
2012
Casting Blossoms to the Sky as Seijiro Nose
2012
Folktales from Japan
2012
A Sower of Seeds as Shuzo Morikawa
2012
Ace Attorney as Saibancho (Judge)
2011
Isoroku Yamamoto, the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet as Yoneuchi
2011
Life Back Then as Masashi Inoue
2011
Humanoid Monster Bem as Nameless Man
2011
Karate-Robo Zaborgar as Dr. Akunomiya
2011
HUNTER - Women After Reward Money as Shogo Ooiwa
2011
Shikei Kijun as Kyusaku Tsushima
2011
In His Chart as Doctor
2011
Ninja Kids!!!
2011
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki's Fabulous Trip as wet guy
2010
Postcard as Yukichi Morikawa, the Father-in-Law
2010
Cast Me If You Can as Homeless guy
2010
The Lightning Tree as Kakunoshi Enokido
2010
Mori no Asagao as Keizukuri Hukahori
2010
Sakurada Gate Incident as Magojiro Kaneko
2010
Ekeb of Dekye as Soichi Yanagimachi
2010
Heaven's Story as Souichi
2010
Naze Kimi wa Zetsubo to Tatakaeta noka
2010
Villain as Yoshio Ishibashi
2010
Hutch the Honeybee
2010
A Crowd of Three
2010
A Lone Scalpel as Matsuo Okawa
2010
Haru's Journey as Michio Nakai
2010
Absolute Zero as Sosuke Kagami
2010
After the Flowers as Soan Nagai
2010
Golden Slumber as Hodogaya Yasushi
2009
Yona Yona Penguin as Jii (voice)
2009
Clouds Over the Hill as 乃木知幸介
2009
Boku to Mama No Kiiroi Jitensha as Shotaro
2009
April Bride as Teishi Nagashima
2009
Rain Fall as Tatsu Ishikura
2009
John Rabe as Matsui Iwane
2009
Asahiyama Zoo Story: Penguins in the Sky as Itsuro Usui
2008
Happy Flight as Saito
2008
ICHI
2008
Ties of Shooting Stars as Togami Masayuki
2008
Teacher and Three Children as Yoshio Ichikawa
2008
Ikigami: The Ultimate Limit as Counselor
2008
The Cycling Genius Is Coming!
2008
All Around Us as kunimasa Yasuda
2008
The Taste of Fish as Shojiro Sanada
2008
The Most Beautiful Night In The World as Journalist
2008
The Chasing World as Doctor
2007
The Shadow Spirit as mimasaka koushirou
2007
Prodigy as Hisashi Kikuna
2007
Life Can Be So Wonderful as Haeo
2007
Three for the Road
2007
The Go Master as Kensaku Segoe
2007
Tokyo Towers: Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad as Doctor from Sasazuka Clinic
2007
愛の流刑地 as 北冈耕造
2007
Starfish Hotel as Mr. Trickster
2006
The Happiness
2006
The Summer of Stickleback
2006
Japan Sinks as Professor Fukuhara
2006
It's Only Talk
2006
Memories of Matsuko as Tsunehiro Kawajiri
2006
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Love and Glory as Hideyoshi Toyotomi
2005
Scrap Heaven as Detective Yabuta
2005
Haru and Natsu as Kotaro Nakayama
2005
The Suspect: Muroi Shinji as Seigo Tsuda
2005
The Great Yokai War
2005
For the coming day
2005
Love Is Five Seven Five as Grandfather
2005
Tetsujin 28: The Movie as Yunosuke Otsuka
2005
The Lakeside Murder Case as Tomoharu Fujima
2004
Moon and Cherry as Sakamoto
2004
The Motive as Yoshifumi Katakura
2004
River of First Love as Hidejiro Tasaki
2004
Takada Wataru Teki as Self
2004
Drugstore Girl as Koji Nabeshima
2004
Zebraman as Kitahara the Crab Man
2004
Winning Pass
2004
The Hunter and the Hunted as Neko
2004
竜馬がゆく
2003
Hana as Hiroshi Torigoe
2003
Doppelganger as Murakami
2003
Worst by Chance as Shigeharu Kaneshiro
2003
Zatoichi as Pub Owner
2003
Love & War of a Samurai
2003
Water Boys as Mama (of a bar)
2003
Farewell, Kuro as Shuzo Hanazono
2003
Samurai Resurrection as Nobutsuna Matsudaira
2003
Teacher's suitcase as Sensei/Matsumoto Harutsuna
2003
Owl
2002
Mibu Gishiden: Shinsengumi de Ichiban Tsuyokatta Otoko
2002
Barber's Sorrow
2002
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo as Hyoue Yarikura
2002
September 11 as Sakichi Furuhashi (segment "Japan")
2002
The Private Detective Mike
2002
KT as Hiroshi Uchiyama
2001
Prince Shotoku as Anahobe no miko
2001
Turn as Matsubara
2001
Waterboys as Mama
2001
Kaza-hana as Hot Spring Inn Owner
2000
The City of Lost Souls as Kuwata
2000
The Whispered City as Artist
2000
Nagisa as Priest
2000
Another Heaven as Doctor Akagi
1999
Kaizokuban Bootleg Film as Tatsuo
1999
The Nagaharu Yodogawa Story: A Cineaste's Life in Kobe as Matashichi
1999
Round About Midnight as Totsuka
1999
Out - Tsumatachi no Hanzai
1999
Will to Live as Doctor
1999
Genroku Ryoran as Genshiro
1998
Yanchakure as 水嶋钦一
1998
Love Letter
1998
Dr. Akagi as Dr. Fuu Akagi
1997
The Key as Soichiro Anzai
1997
Body and Soul
1997
Abduction
1997
The Eel as Tamotsu Takasaki
1996
The Rainbow Seeker
1996
Free and Easy 8 as Yukawa
1996
Shall We Dance? as Detective Miwa
1995
Maborosi as Yoshihiro
1995
Eighth Shogun Yoshimune as Tokugawa Munenao
1994
Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla as Major Akira Yuki
1994
The Friends as Nagatomo
1993
I Can Hear the Duck Singing
1993
When Cinema Reflects the Times: Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang as Narrator (voice)
1993
Private Lessons II as Oba
1993
Family Court Judge as Shibuya Naomasa
1992
Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2
1992
Manhattan Kiss
1992
Sumo Do, Sumo Don't as Professor Tokichi Anayama
1991
A Naive History of the Bakumatsu Era as Kogoro Katsura
1991
Dance till Tomorrow
1991
Goodbye Mama
1991
The Last Frankenstein as Prof. Sarusawa
1991
Taiheiki as Moronao Kô-no
1990
Betrayal Tomorrow
1990
Maria's Stomach
1990
Roar of the Crowd
1990
ホットドッグ as 大田原輝
1990
Universal Laws
1989
Fancy Dance as Masoho's boss
1989
Beijing Watermelon as Mr. Teramoto
1989
Battle Heater as Riichi Hama
1989
Tora-san Goes to Vienna as Hyoma Sakaguchi
1989
Harimao as Army Major
1989
Mottomo Abunai Deka as Maeo
1988
Revolver as Keisuke Mineya
1988
あそびにおいでョ!
1988
The Silk Road
1988
The Yen Family as Shinichi Amemiya
1988
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo as Yakuza
1987
The Great Department Store Robbery
1987
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Bedtime Eyes
1987
A Tale of Young Elopement as Matsuda
1985
Congratulatory Speech as Yasuhei Higashida
1985
The Second Is a Christian as Kumashiro
1985
I Want To Live Once More: Shinjuku Bus Fire Incident as Hirofumi Maruyama
1985
Capone Cries a Lot as Ushiemon
1984
水曜ドラマスペシャル
1984
Location as Konno
1984
Make-Up as Kikuo Tsutano
1983
Legend of the Cat Monster as Ryohei Shimura / Joji Tamura
1983
Double Bed as Tôru Yamazaki
1983
Amagi Pass
1982
The Man from Shimizu
1982
Suspicion as Shigekazu Akitani
1982
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san as Kondo
1982
Lovers Lost as Ishizuka
1981
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun as Detective Kuroki
1980
Disciples of Hippocrates
1979
Masked Crusader, Mr. Jirenman as Kantarô Iwata
1979
Shimo-ochiai Yakitori Movie
1979
Fujio Akatsuka's Gag Porno: In the Mood Once Again as Daigorô Hatayama